Laura Marling wows crowd at intimate album launch

The singer-songwriter walked on to a makeshift stage in the centre of The Crypt in Marylebone to a backing tape playing a male voice reading her own poem 'The Beast Was A Creature I Did Not Know'.

Marling played six songs from her new record, opening with an acoustic and unaccompanied performance of 'I Was Just A Card'. She then thanked the crowd before switching to a nylon-strung guitar for 'Night After Night'.

After apologising for not being able to face all four directions at once, Marling introduced her band and continued her unmiked performance.